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Islamic law did not recognize the classes of slave from pre-Islamic Arabia including those sold or given into slavery by themselves and others, and those indebted into slavery. [8] Though a free Muslim could not be enslaved, conversion to Islam by a non-Muslim slave did not require that he or she then should be liberated.
The dominating Islamic view, expressed by contemporary Arab writers, was that slavery was benevolent since the supply source of slaves were the non-Islamic outside world of Polytheist-Idolators and Barbaric infidels, who thanks to their enslavement would convert to Islam and enjoy the benefits of Islamic civilisation. [59]
Slavery was not abolished in Mauritania until 1981. [70] In the 1980s, during the Second Sudanese Civil War, there was a resurgence of the Sudanese slave trade under the National Islamic Front and groups such as the Baqqara and Rizeigat. [74]
Islam and slavery may refer to: Islamic views on slavery in theology / jurisprudence; Islamic views on concubinage in theology / jurisprudence; History of slavery in the Muslim world; History of concubinage in the Muslim world; Arab slave trade; Saqaliba; Slavery in 21st-century jihadism; Ma malakat aymanukum
Slavery in the Ottoman Empire (9 C, 35 P) Pages in category "History of slavery in the Muslim world" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
The slave trade from Africa to Arabia via the Red Sea had ancient Pre-Islamic roots, and the commercial slave trade was not interrupted by Islam. While in Pre-Islamic Arabia, Arab war captives were common targets of slavery, importation of slaves from Ethiopia across the Red Sea also took place. [16]
Race and Slavery in the Middle East: an Historical Enquiry is a 1990 book written by the British historian Bernard Lewis. [1] [2] The book details the Islamic history of slavery in the Middle East from its earliest incarnations until its abolition in the various countries of the region.
The Red Sea slave trade, sometimes known as the Islamic slave trade, [1] Arab slave trade, [1] or Oriental slave trade, [1] was a slave trade across the Red Sea trafficking Africans from the African continent to slavery in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East from antiquity until the mid-20th century.